"Horn In The West" - An Event

This is the final week of the 72nd season for the "Horn in The West", a revolutionary war era drama produced in Boone, North Carolina. Billed as the nation's longest running outdoor Revolutionary War drama, "Horn In The West", is based on the history of Daniel Boone and the mountain settlers of the Blue Ridge Mountains and their struggles for freedom before and during the American War for Independence.

The plot centers around Dr. Geoffrey Stuart, a prominent British physician, who comes to the colony of North Carolina with his family to study the effects of smallpox, a terrible disease of that time period. And one from which George Washington suffered when he was nineteen on a trip to Barbados. With General Washington later describing it in a letter in 1777 as a potentially greater threat "than. . . the sword of the enemy."

In the "Horn In The West", as Dr. Stuart and his family become connected with the pioneer North Carolina community, they develop sympathy for the Regulators and their fight for American Independence. However, they are still loyal British subjects and struggle with their loyalty to the king and their loyalty to their newfound Appalachian community.

Written by the American playwright Dr. Kermit Hunter, who wrote more than forty historical productions, "Horn In The West" is produced nightly from Tuesday through Saturday at 8 PM

Eastern time at the Hickory Ridge History Museum in the Daniel Boone Park. With the final performance of the 2024 season being on Saturday, August 10th, 2024 at eight PM Eastern

time.

Tickets for "Horn in the West" are available here:

https://www.etix.com/ticket/v/1865/horn-in-the-west

Luisa Reyes is an attorney in Tuscaloosa with a bachelor's degree in mathematics from Judson, a master's degree in library science, and a law degree from Samford's Cumberland School of Law. She is also a piano instructor and vocalist.